LTREB: Plot Recensus in Tropical Forests of Asia, to Generate Data on Forest Dynamics and Species Demographies

9629601 Ashton本研究的目标是在热带马来西亚和泰国的三个大规模（50公顷）的人口树地块。这些信息将用于研究物种多样性和群落结构如何随生境因素在空间和时间上发生变化。最近的信息将与其他关于人口统计学和生理学的研究结合使用。测绘协议将遵循巴拿马巴罗科罗拉多岛长期监测地块使用的协议。这项研究沿着新世界和旧世界热带森林的其他大规模样地将为区域和全球热带森林多样性和动态分析提供基线。在LTEB资助下收集的数据将用于研究人员，国内合作者和所有其他感兴趣的研究人员的广泛假设检验，监测，实验和建模活动。 这一项目已经确立，并得到东道国的大力支持。从这些大型地块获得的数据提供了关于热带森林长期动态的最详细信息。通过将这项研究的数据与其他长期森林研究相结合，将有可能评估热带森林社区的区域和全球趋势。

9629601 Ashton The goal of this research is to recensus three large-scale (50 ha) demographic tree plots in tropical Malaysia and Thailand. The information will be used to examine how species diversity and community structure vary spatially and temporally in relation to habitat factors. The recensus information will be used in conjunction with other studies on demography and physiology. The mapping protocol will follow that used in the long-term monitoring plots on Barro Colorado Island in Panama. Together this study, along with the other large-scale plots in both new world and old world tropical forests, will provide the baseline for regional and global analyses of tropical forest diversity and dynamics. Data collected under this LTREB funding will be made available for a wide range of hypothesis testing, monitoring, experimentation, and modeling activities by the investigators, in-country collaborators, and all other interested researchers. This project is well established and has considerable host-country support. The data from these large plots provide the most detailed information on long-term tropical forest dynamics. By combining data from this study with other long-term forest studies, it will be possible to assess regional and global trends in tropical forest communities.